Knowledge Share Description

Throughout this workshop we will learn how to transform botanical dye baths into powder pigments through the process of laking. Lake pigments were created by ancient civilizations as a means of making a shelf-stable product that could be combined with different binders. Emphasis will be given to collecting invasive and abundant plants from your neighborhood or territory, or even food scraps that you can collect from your own kitchen (or perhaps someone else's; their waste is your treasure!). Lake pigments with local plants is a fun and exciting way to support your community's sovereignty by strengthening botanical literacy and creating your own art materials.

Knowledge Share

• You'll become more familiarized with abundant wild plants that surround your home

• You'll learn how to use this ancient technique to honor the abundance in invasive species or food scraps that would be otherwise ignored, removed or thrown out.

• Through this recognition of local flora, you'll create a color palette that is unique to your territory or community.

Cost

$35 - BIPOC or low income

$75 - standard or reparations (If you have financial abundance, this is our pay-it-forward option to fund our full tuition scholarships)

The zoom link will be sent 1-2 days prior to the knowledge share. Recording will be available for 30 days.

For scholarships please email herbancura@gmail.com with subject Lake Pigments

Accessibility Information

*ASR (automated) captioning provided

*Live captioning & ASL interpretation may be available with advance notice

*Spanish interpretation may be available with advance notice (Si requiere interpretacion por favor mande un email a herbancura@gmail.com)

Virtual Gathering

Zoom link will be sent out via email 1-2 days before knowledge share

5:00pm - 8:00pm Eastern Standard Time

Class will be recorded and available for 30 days.

Facilitator

Karla Claudio-Betancourt (she/they) is a queer multidisciplinary artist, educator, cultural affairs director and native to Borikén. She expresses herself in various disciplines, amongst them illustration, comics, zines, photography, sculpture, video and natural She leads an itinerant lab for creative research with wild plants called @la.recolecta which studies local wild plants for food, medicine and craft. Knowledge is collectively gathered and shared through zines, online publications, and workshops. The intention is to walk the line between art, ethnobotany and agroecology through popular, scientific and empirical knowledge. She currently works as a writer, illustrator and producer for the Canadian arts non-profits ArtsEverywhere. She believes in collective healing through art and collaborations with non-human species. Today she lives with many plants and mythology books in Hato Rey, Borikén, and volunteers at the most beautiful community garden in Santurce, @hcsmd. You can see more of her work on the IG account @el_matojal.